• Source: Glory to the Filmmaker!

      • Glory to the Filmmaker! (監督·ばんざい!, Kantoku · Banzai!) is a 2007 Japanese film written, directed, edited by the film's lead star Takeshi Kitano. It is the second film in Kitano's surrealist autobiographical trilogy, following Takeshis', and concluding with Achilles and the Tortoise.


      Style


      The comedy crosses a broad range of genres common to Japanese film in a fashion similar to Getting Any?, Kitano's 1995 parody. Kitano described the film as "a cinematic extension of his manzai comedy routines that continues in much the same vein as his last feature, the similarly eclectic Takeshis'."


      Plot


      Kitano plays a hapless film director in search of a commercial hit, while suffering failure after failure as he tries out different genres.


      Cast


      Takeshi Kitano
      Tōru Emori
      Kayoko Kishimoto
      Anne Suzuki
      Keiko Matsuzaka
      Yoshino Kimura
      Kazuko Yoshiyuki
      Yuki Uchida
      Akira Takarada
      Yumiko Fujita
      Ren Osugi
      Susumu Terajima
      Naomasa Musaka


      Reception


      In 2007, the Venice Film Festival introduced a new award named after the film; Kitano was the first recipient of this Glory to the Filmmaker Award award.


      References




      External links


      Glory to the Filmmaker!
      Glory to the Filmmaker! at IMDb
      (in Japanese) Movie trailer at Official site
      Kantoku Banzai reviewed at Twitch Archived 2008-05-28 at the Wayback Machine

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